Counting Crows Round Here (Live In Paris '94) Lyrics

I'm on top of everything
I'll be the king of anything
I've got a place of mine
That's all my own

Well, I'm inside of me again
A small world
All the same
And I'm alone
And I'm alone
And I'm alone
And I'm alone
And I'm alone
And I'm alone

Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog
Where no one notices the contrast of white on white
And in between the moon and you the angels get a better view
Of the crumbling difference between wrong and right
I walk in the air between the rain through myself and back again
Where? I dont know
Maria says shes dying through the door I hear her crying
Why? I dont know

Round here yeah we always stand up straight
Round here something radiates

Maria came from nashville with a suitcase in her hand
She said she'd like to meet a boy who looks like elvis
She walks along the edge of where the ocean meets the land
Just like shes walking on a wire in the circus
She parks her car outside of my house
And takes all her clothes off
Says she's close to understanding Jesus
She knows she's more than just a little misunderstood
She has trouble acting normal when she's nervous

Round here were carving out our names
Round here we all look the same
Round here we talk just like lions
But we sacrifice just like lambs
Round here she's slipping through my hands

Sleeping children better run like the wind
Out of the lightning dream
Mamas little baby better get herself in
Out of the lightning

Here underneath the stars
She says, well I am - naked infront of you
You do what you wanna do
But I don't wanna be like you
You get your little hands out
Around my throat
She says, tell me that you love me
Tell me that you love me
Tell me that you love me
Yeah you tell me that you love me
Tell me that you love me
Well I don't wanna be like you, she says
Well I don't wanna be like you, she says

Aaarrrrrrrrggggghhh

Just leave me alone
Leave me alone
Leave me alone
She says, leave me alone
She says, just leave me alone
Leave me alone
Leave me alone
Leave me alone
Leave me alone, she says

Well, I don't wanna be like you
Well, I don't wanna be like you
Well, I don't wanna be like you
She says "GASP GASP GASP GASP GASP GASP GASP"
She says, I'm the girl on the corner
In the parking lot
She says, now why don't you take a shot
She says, can't you see me?
Can't you see me
Don't you see me at all
Can't you see me
Can't you see me
Don't you see me
Don't you see me at all

My walls are crumbling
All my walls are crumbling
Well all my walls are crumbling
My walls are falling down
My walls are falling down
My walls are crumbling down
My walls are crumbling down

She looks up at the building
She looks up at the building
She looks up at the building
My walls are crumbling down
She looks up at the building
She says, I'm thinking of jumping
She say, I'm tired of live
Well everybody's tired of something

Round here she's always on my mind
Round here hey man, I've got a lot of time
She says, round here were never sent to bed early
And nobody makes us wait
She says, round here we stay up
Round here we stay up
We stay up very very very late up
I cant see nothing, nothing around here
No, would you catch me if I was falling
Would you kiss me if I was leaving
Would you hold me if I was lonely

She lives alone on her private Archipelago
With her palm trees and her sea shells
She sits in the wawes all day
She's scared of dying
She wants to keep it that way
She sends a boat out on the sea
With a little note for me
It says, why are the girls so hungry

La la la la la
La la la la la la la

Why are the girls so hungry
Why are the girls so hungry
Why are all the girls so hungry
Why are the girls so hungry

I can't see nothing, oh no
I can't see nothing, no
Round here
No
I said, I'm lonely without you
'Cause I can't see nothing
Nothing
Round here